Crumbs we cannot even build a big crane in this country any more, Babcocks have bought and had shipped from China the biggest crane in the UK just to build 2 new aircraft carriers at Rosyth. I wonder how much the MOD paid for it in the cost of the new ships. Even shipped from China on one of ZMPTEC's special crane carrying ships, all the way from Pudong/Shanghai

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thats some crane!

can't imagine the ship would have done well in rough seas - looks very 'low'?

knowing MOD procedure a little - lets just say the various committee meetings/consultants etc probably cost more than the crane

Rough seas aren't a problem, these ships are converted tankers and a bit of water on deck just washes off again, the real problem for those ships is piracy in the Indian Ocean, not only are they very low freeboard, they are also quite slow.

Here is a Chinese video of the crew on one of those ships repelling pirates (I have also posted this link in the Beer thread!)
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i was working on the forth road bridge today -its just been sitting outside the dockyard all day

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